Sustain Ontario 2025 VoteONFood campaign – Reduce poverty, improve working conditions and ensure affordable housing to increase food security

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Income Security Advocacy Centre’s Province Election Round Up

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It is more important than ever for the Ontario government to act on social assistance.

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Feed Ontario’s Election Recommendations

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Feed Ontario reports that almost two-thirds of food bank clients in Ontario were reliant on social assistance. The demand that food banks face is tightly intertwined with policy decisions on social assistance. feedontario.ca/advocacy-cha... (8/11)

Social assistance reform is also critical for addressing the rising homelessness, another key municipal concern, with the number of social assistance recipients experiencing homelessness almost doubling over the past two years. www.thetrillium.ca/news/social-... (7/11)

Now Toronto, Mississauga, and Kingston have declared food insecurity as an emergency, with a united call for improvements to social assistance. More cities are also looking to do the same.

Check out our interview with @ericwickham.ca @pressprogress.ca at:
pressprogress.ca/after-three-... (6/11)

When the UN Rapporteur on the right to food visited in 2012, he expressed concern about the then already high rates of food insecurity & erosion of social protections, specifically the lack of accountability for provincial social assistance programs.

Unfortunately, little has changed since. (5/11)

Every year public health units across ON estimate the cost of food in their regions. Through this work, the inadequacies of OW & ODSP have been extensively documented for years.

We've summarize how much singles on OW & ODSP are short after food and rent: proof.utoronto.ca/2025/ontario... (4/11)

The cost of healthcare for an adult living in a severely food-insecure household in Ontario is more than double that of someone in food secure household.

A third of severely food-insecure households in Ontario in 2023 received some support from OW or ODSP. (3/11)

Since the start of this monitoring, we’ve known that households relying on social assistance have the highest rates of food insecurity.

In 2023, 70% of households relying on OW or ODSP were food-insecure and 43% were severely so. (2/11)

“70% of households that rely on social assistance are food insecure...Relying on social assistance is almost a guarantee that you’re going to be food insecure.”
There is wide consensus across municipalities that social assistance is too low.
pressprogress.ca/after-three-... by @ericwickham.ca (2/2)

Listen to her interview with CBC The Current's Matt Galloway as part of CBC's annual coverage of Order of Canada appointees, on the need for government leadership and accountability on household food insecurity (starts at 00:08:11). (2/2)

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...